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The bestiary form is commonly divided into "families," as proposed in 1928 by M. R. James [1] and revised by Florence McCulloch in 1959–1962. In the absence of popular culture books, people in the Middle Ages in Europe took superstition for granted, and the unthinkable can easily be accepted as the undisputed truth.
"The creation was a mathematical diagram drawn in parallel lines," T. H. White said a propos the bestiary he translated. "Things did not only have a moral they often had physical counterparts in other strata. There was a horse in the land and a sea-horse in the sea. For that matter there was probably a Pegasus in heaven". [3]
S. Petersen's Field Guide to Creatures of the Dreamlands is a 64-page perfect-bound softcover book written by Sandy Petersen, with illustrations by Michael J. Ferrari.. The book is a bestiary of creatures that inhabit the Dreamlands, the alternate reality featured in stories of H.P. Lovecraft such as The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Celephaïs, and The Cats of Ulthar.
The Worksop Bestiary, also known as the Morgan Bestiary (MS 81), most likely from Lincoln or York, England, [1] [2] is an illuminated manuscript created around 1185, containing a bestiary and other compiled medieval Latin texts on natural history. The manuscript has influenced many other bestiaries throughout the medieval world and is possibly ...
Two illuminated Psalters, the Queen Mary Psalter (British Library Ms. Royal 2B, vii) and the Isabella Psalter (State Library, Munich), contain full Bestiary cycles. The bestiary in the Queen Mary Psalter is found in the "marginal" decorations that occupy about the bottom quarter of the page, and are unusually extensive and coherent in this work.
Deepwater rice is a staple food grown on roughly 90,000 km 2 (35,000 sq mi) of land. The main areas where it is grown are in Southeast Asia including Northeastern India, where more than 100 million people rely on its production for their livelihood. [2]
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Clyde R. Moore joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -2.4 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
He concluded there must be only two of them and that they must be infertile, otherwise the seas would be full of them. [15] The King described the feeding manner of hafgufa: The fish would belch, which would expel so much food that it would attract all the nearby fish. Once a large number had crowded into its mouth and belly, it would close its ...